I have had a dozen or so blenders and all had plastic drive gears. Can anyone tell me the materials the drive gears are made of?
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The drive sprocket on the blender base is hard rubber--I haven't cut into it to see if it's a rubber coated metal drive gear, but it seems pretty solid. The jar has a metal gear and entire blade assembly is all metal except for a rubber sealing gasket. The drive system seems pretty substantial; I would expect it to last a long time.
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http://www.totalvac.com/waring.html You can see in the parts guide the gears are metal and are available as a spare part. I have used the blender frequently (twice daily for 6 months so far) , but can't wholly attest to its future life span. I just bought another one for my son, who just bought an apartment and he uses it as well.
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The part that is connected to the blender is metal coated in rubber and the gear wheel on the container is metal
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yeah I can answer your question. I just received mine from amazon about a wek or so ago. I was a amazon vote winner. I contacted Kitchenaid, and they told me my mixer was made in August of this year. All mixers made after april of 2007 have metal gearboxes. Read my review.
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It is made of plastic...BPA free. I have had about a dozen different personal blenders, and this is, without any doubt, the best one I have had. LOVE IT!
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Hi Jennifer, I cannot visually see the gears because they're encased in a gear box. But I cannot imagine them to be made of plastic. I used the tiller on some pretty hard soil, also embedded with rocks. The tiller did fine. In fact, the tiller prongs (made of metal) sustained the heavy tilling without being bent or broken. I'm pretty happy with its overall performance. My only regret is that I didn't buy it sooner. Good luck on your experience.
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They are a hard plastic. Been using for a few months and seem to be pretty decent quality. The blender still rocks!
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plastic. DO NOT BUY THIS PIECE OF GARBAGE!! My first one died after just a few smoothies, spent $30 as per Cuisinart to ship it back and they replaced it with another that broke on the 3rd use, for just smoothies again. SERIOUSLY, YOU WILL REGRET BUYING THIS!! I want my money back and Cuisinart only responds with ship it back (postage and handling = $30) and we'll 'look' at this broken one also. The problem is in the motor.
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The drive gear on the motor is metal, and the reduction and transfer gears are plastic. If the grinder in stressed or if something gets caught in the auger (like a bone), the drive gear can strip the plastic reduction gear. Waring claims this is not serviceable by the owner, but it is. The part is a Kenwood KW650740 and you can get two for $8 on aliexpress.com. You also need a set of "safety" (hollow core) torx bit (T27 size?) to take off the base, and a regular T30 torx to get the motor out.
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The picture shown looks a little bit different than the one I bought, but mine is mostly plastic except for the crank,gears, and strainer basket I've been happy with it so far and I've probably used it 10 times now.
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It has metal gears on drive belt. Outside housing is nylon or plastic. Pulley wheels for belt are metal
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The gears are enclosed in a plastic sleeve. I'd guess plastic, but I cannot tell. Do NOT purchase this product until you've read my earlier comments on the opening/closing door not closing!
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My Blender is 6630 12-speed but I think the replacement pieces fit several models. The plastic in the black base is slightly thinner than original but seems to work OK. Ruth
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I do not know what the gears are made of. I did not take it apart and I sold the atv it was on. Sorry
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I've had two, one for years. Now a replacement because the gears stripped. Both mine have/had plastic gears
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First of all, I believe you have the model numbers reversed.Secondly, the answer is yes.Thirdly, the plastic gear appears to be husky enough.Fourthly, I think the trick is not to overload the blender.
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is coupling mechanism between blending arm and motor housing made of plastic or steel?
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First of all, I believe you have the model numbers reversed. Secondly, the answer is yes. Thirdly, the plastic gear appears to be husky enough. Fourthly, I think the trick is not to overload the blender.
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Yes, the body is made of stainless steel. The blender's body is made of plastic, with the rod and blades of stainless steel.